Women experience best sex as they approach 40

Women enjoy better sex in their thirties and early forties than in their younger years because they fear their “biological clock” is ticking, according to researchers.

As study showed that women are more likely to have sexual fantasies and affairs as they approach 40, despite the fact their bodies may be in decline.

Experts said that as women approach the milestone they might sense that their “window of opportunity” to have children is closing and their fertility is declining.

And thus, their instinctual reaction is an increased appetite for sex, the researchers said.

This could be an explanation for the rise of the “cougar” – a woman who seeks out flings with younger partners.

The survey of nearly 900 women divided respondents into three groups— those at their most fertile (aged 19 to 26), those whose fertility was declining (aged 27 to 45) and those who were approaching or had reached the menopause.

It was found that those in the middle group were significantly more sexually driven, engaging in sex and having sexual fantasies more often than their older and younger counterparts and being more likely to have flings.

“Results indicate women with declining fertility have greater sexual motivations and increased sexual behaviours than do women with relatively high fertility,” the Telegraph quoted Professor David Buss as saying.

“These findings lend further support to the influence of the biological clock on women’s mating psychology to facilitate conception before the window of opportunity closes,” he added.